Trib Editorial: Steroid Scandal worst since Black Sox. Is there no end to the ways they will try to kill baseball?

Cubs also named in report

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Did Magglio take steroids?New accusation out; Canseco offered him money to keep him out of book

Guest columnist Greg Couch: Yes! he did! And do you know what this means? It means that since Maggs was teammates with members of the2005 White Sox, their World Series title is forevertainted! Yes! I have been waiting so long to findout just that, as anyone who read me before the Mitchell Report came out well knows! I'm so happyI just peed my pants! And hey, while I'm at it, the1917 World Series was won by guys who wouldbecome the Black Sox, so strike that one from thebooks, too! Giggle! It means that the World Serieswon by Chicago before that is the last clean one!

Fred Mitchell: Cubs should play in game, they led the way with Ernie and Billy

Game to take place in Memphis

Trib Investigation: James Earl Ray a White Sox fan!

A Trib look at previously unpublished notes of William Bradford Huie, author of He Slew the Dreamer, shows that James Earl Ray, the convicted assassin of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a devoted White Sox fan

"He is very fond of the White Sox. He asks me everyday about them. He particularly loves EddieStanky, the White Sox manager. And boy, does hehate the Cubs. He is obsessed to the point of madness with them." Huie writes. (Eddie Stanky,we hasten to remind you, was violently opposedto Jackie Robinson's integration of baseball.)

Paul Sullivan: Top ten worst White Sox fans of the past 40 years (and boy, was it hard to narrow it down to ten)
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McNulty: Bias perception still exists

"It's just unbelievable" said Dan McGrath, Trib sports editor. "The perception is there with theWhite Sox' whacko, paranoid fans and we are justpowerless to stop it. I'm so tired of those nutjobs,really. I mean, when they won the World Serieswe had a special pullout section and two books.But with the way those kooks acted, you'd have thought that we had put up regular seasonheadlines like "Somber Streak" or "Choke Hold" orwrote stories comparing them to the 1964 Philliesor 1984 Cubs. And after they won it all I wrote it right there on the front page: 'This is for everyone who cares about the White Sox.' And they say I'm biased. Seriously, wheredo they get this crap?"

Another frustrated one is Rick Morrissey, Trib Sports columnist.

"Boy, I can't wait until the Trib sells the team. What a relief that will be." He says. "I mean,I write one story saying 'great, you won the Series in 2005, but Chicago will always, always,always be a Cub town. And by the way, if myCubbies ever won the Series, their victory paradewill make the Sox' parade seem like a Rotary Clubbake sale. I believed that then and I believe it now. Good Grief! What an uproar that caused!They had the nerve to say I was biased."

The most tired of all is Ann Marie Lipinski.

"I am in the business of the news!" She yells. "I will put whatever is newsworthy on the frontpage! If it means putting a story about marijuana smoke hovering over the Cell on the front page, that is what it means! Is it our fault that they're alldopeheads? And if it means that giant snails aremore newsworthy than murder, hey. I personally love giant snails! And they also accuse me of downplaying the parade downtown after they won the series by having a story about if theywill ever be as 'big' as the Cubs. Well, I have newsfor them. I have absolutely no memory of themwinning the series, or of any alleged parade down-town, so I have no idea what they're talking about!"